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It wasn't the roughness and crudity and discomfort of the trip that had frightened her.
Later I learned that Sir Hugh Dalton had expressed a desire to see me, hence their trip to `` No Man's Land ''.
When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.
On his first trip to the finished structure he boasted that he had built a temple grander than Solomon's in Jerusalem.
Half the manhours you pay for on most jobs are wasted because the job was not planned right, so the right tools were not handy at the right place at the right time, or the right materials were not delivered to the handiest spots or materials were not stacked in the right order for erection, or you bought cheap materials that took too long to fit, or your workmen had to come back twice to finish a job they could have done on one trip.
We had nearly decided that all the tales of Lao lethargy must be true, when we were invited to take a trip with the Prime Minister.
She had lost a bottle of opium -- but that was on the trip from New Orleans.
Why, he wondered, had Elaine wanted him along on this trip??
And then I remembered a few years before after their return from a short trip to Rome I had heard her boast, over and over again, `` On the boat people liked me for myself ''.
Some people said Linda had just announced the engagement to jolt John into some action, but when John came home from a business trip to Cleveland with Edythe, with Edythe his bride, it could no longer be John-and-Linda even to sentimental wishful thinkers.
Chris made trip after trip in our old car, moving the clothes and dishes and the stock of groceries Nadine had bought on special.
Angrily Martin wished they had delayed the wedding and gone on a trip -- preferably one that lasted months -- instead of deciding not to postpone the date until he could get away.
This continued most of the week following that ill-starred trip to church, during which period Mike stayed in his room and usually in a trance so deep that Jubal would have pronounced him dead had he not seen it before.
he had been explaining all during the trip what he needed to make him feel like himself.
In 1893, at the age of thirty-three, Bates, an English professor at Wellesley College, had taken a train trip to Colorado Springs, Colorado, to teach a short summer school session at Colorado College.
Then to gain entrance to both the outer and inner sanctuary of the church the women pretended to the gatekeepers that they were pilgrims from Cappadocia who had spent all their funds and wanted to worship before starting their return trip.
On his return from a business trip to Yemen, he was informed that in his absence Muhammad had openly declared his prophethood.
On his return from a business trip from Yemen, he was informed by friends that in his absence Muhammad had declared himself the Messenger of God, and proclaimed a new religion.
In the mid 1640s Both, a native and resident of Utrecht, had just returned to his hometown from a trip to Rome.
I trust your trip to ' the big apple ' ( New York ) was a huge success and only wish that I had been able to make it with you.
While in London he visited the Central London District School of his childhood, somewhere he had avoided on the 1921 trip, and found it an emotional experience.
The trip had been a stimulating experience for Chaplin, including meetings with several prominent thinkers, and he became increasingly interested in world affairs.
Bozizé even planned to visit Khartoum in December 2006, but had to cancel his trip when Chad ( which has strained relations with the Sudanese Government ) threatened to withdraw its military support to C. A. R.

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The conductor did recall having priests as passengers and this satisfied police, although the conductor also pointed out that in heavily Catholic Fall River there were priests riding on almost every trip the streetcar made, so Morse's statement really proved nothing.
While some parents give their children a great deal of money for the trip, Moussa's parents believe that she will learn more with a true wanderjahr rather than a subsidized tour, so they give her nothing but a voucher for a one-way ticket home.
At the time Glenn was tired from working non-stop for over a year and had planned to go on a fishing trip with his uncle, and as nothing could dissuade his intention to take that short break, the role went to Craig Sheffer.
He ate nothing but anchovies and wine during the month long trip and joined his cousins, the Castellanos, in New York City.
" Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz of At the Movies recommended to " Skip It ", with Lyons saying, " It was a great premise ; it just unfortunately did not come together ," while Mankiewicz commenting that " it devolves into nothing more than a silly road trip movie.
Rockaway and Broad Channel residents with E-ZPass pay $ 1. 19 per trip for the first two trips per day, and pay nothing for additional trips.
Before leaving, Goerdeler met with Adolf Hitler and the Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, and received their promise that nothing would happen to the statue during his trip.
He did not embark on the trip for the film with any special government groups or organizations, but instead bought plane tickets and headed off to Iraq, the Palestinian territories, and Israel armed with nothing more than his guitar and an extreme passion for music and a love of people.
With nothing keeping him in London, he volunteers to be part of Roxton's second trip.
" After a trip to the darkroom for touching up, " ll that remains is to publish the photograph as a representation of exactly how things are, and to note how nothing fits properly into any other shape.
This theory is demonstrated in an episode of the TV show Big Bang Theory where Leonard and Sheldon sign a roommate agreement that states if either one of them ever invents time travel their first trip back would be to their present location 5 seconds after the signing of the contract, they are subsequently disappointed when the 5 seconds pass and nothing happens.
Convenience stores at filling stations sell items that have nothing to do with gasoline / petrol, but purchasing at that location can save the consumer time compared to another trip to a grocery store.
When Dawson asks Joey if she slept with Pacey during the ski trip, she lies, telling him that nothing happened.
One of the eight men, Ernest Ray Cole, reported that the men were snowed in during the hunting trip in a log cabin and had nothing better to do with themselves.
With the use of Mr. Hankey's Poo-Choo train ( a train made of feces that Stan and Kyle Broflovski want nothing to do with ), Cartman and the other boys travel to the North Pole to convince Santa Claus to make a special trip.
She remembers nothing of meeting one of Miss Pope's staff, Miss Burshaw, in London over the trip over the channel.
The latter came out in 1893, after the couple's second trip to Europe where their first, nothing out of the ordinary, encounter with Dmitry Filosofov ( future friend / lover ) occurred.
In 1985 Crowell co-wrote a book about the incident called " Forgive Me " and gave Dotson more than $ 17, 000 in proceeds from its sale, keeping nothing for herself except the taxes due on that payment .< REF NAME =" NW "/>< REF NAME =" NYT "/> In return, Dotson promised not to sue her over her false accusation .< REF NAME =" NYT "/> Dotson used the money to finance the start of his post-prison life, including a trip to Las Vegas to marry Camille .< REF NAME =" NW "/> In 1985, Dotson had planned to write his own book with New York author Jeannie Ralston .< REF NAME =" NYT "/> If written, the book was not published.
In a 1770 trip down Pattersons Creek George Washington pointed out the place where the fort had stood indicating it has fallen to nothing within 15 years.

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